OC-31/25 defines the right to care in section 113 as the right of every person to have the time, space, and resources necessary to provide, receive, or establish conditions that ensure their overall ...
By construing his appointment as a “definitive legal situation,” the Supreme Judicial Council effectively transformed what is, by definition, a temporary assignment into a permanent status. In doing ...
While there are steps to hold the Taliban accountable through the International Criminal Court (ICC), the possibility of a ...
It comes as no surprise that some disciplines are better positioned than others to inform public debate. That legal scholarship is particularly well suited for this task is obvious. In the past four ...
A key step towards improving public debt transparency is to analyze it through the lens of constitutional law. As the first part of this post explains, applying a constitutional law framework to ...
This challenges the traditional liberal view, exemplified by the allegory of Ulysses tied to the mast, where the constitution sets limits on state power and can only be changed through formal ...
I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years, and in all that time I have been more or less confident that basic minima of freedom of speech would remain unscathed ...
In Italy, the Corte Costituzionale has long treated rent control as a site of normative tension between property rights and social goals. Drawing on Articles 3, 41, and 42 of the Italian Constitution, ...
In the span of one year, Israel experienced two historic crises: a constitutional crisis triggered by the 2023 judicial overhaul and a national security emergency following Hamas’ October 7 attack.
Earlier this month, Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered his Opinion in Shipov, a case before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dealing with the gender recognition rights of a trans woman ...
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On 11 September 2025, Advocate General (“AG”) Ćapeta delivered her Opinion in Aucrinde, the very first case to reach the Court on the interpretation of the Recast Evidence Regulation since it became ...